Re: [FT] Naming Islamic Fed ships (was Re: [FT] Islamic Fed SSDs)
From: "Noah V. Doyle" <nvdoyle@i...>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:33:54 -0500
Subject: Re: [FT] Naming Islamic Fed ships (was Re: [FT] Islamic Fed SSDs)
At 02:00 AM 11/29/2004, The GZG Digest wrote:
>Mostly not. The titles of the surahs are things like "The Cow" and
>"The Mountain" and "The Women".
Nah, I was thinking phrases from them, not titles, but I didn't have any
examples at the time.
>There's also an Afif class. Afif is a masculine name meaning
>"chaste", so I suppose for the CL we could use personal
>characteristics: Amin (Faithful), Alim (Learned), Ashraf (Honorable)
>and so forth.
That's a much better idea than mine. :)